«My son mistreated a child in the park, help me find him. I want to apologize”

PERUGIA – An afternoon among children in the park, a small fight among the adults and an older child targeting the smaller one. But this time the street doesn’t tell of angry adults or complaints, of interventions by the police or of files opened at the prosecutor’s office, but of a father who just wants to set a good example. To his son and also to the “grown-ups”.

This is the story that comes from Ponte San Giovanni, where a father at home in the evening discovers the mischief made by his 7-year-old child during the afternoon. When, while he was at the Bellini park with his grandmother «during games/arguments between children he threw, covering him with white powder, a child younger than him, I think a foreigner, not one of our acquaintances to whom I apologize on my behalf and on behalf of all the my family”. A story that the father himself, Moreno, decided to tell on Facebook, published within a group in Ponte San Giovanni. But not to get compliments. No. As much as being able to track down the family of the child mortified by the rain of dust via social media. «I would like to apologize in person – explains the man again in his post -. So I ask anyone who knows what happened and or knows these people to let me know. I apologize publicly in advance.”
An almost old-fashioned gesture, which immediately won the applause of the residents and friends of Ponte San Giovanni who immediately congratulated this father, polite and educator. «An example of how to be a parent, educating and apologizing when necessary, congratulations – is one of the comments -. A little civic education from parents like her would be enough to have the hope in the future of having children educated to respect diversity and respect others.” And again: “It’s nice to read posts like yours, it means that beautiful people still exist and that’s no small feat.” “Congratulations, very good and rare parent”, write the users, thanking this father for a small gesture but of immense value. That he wanted to underline the importance of apologizing, in a period in which it is increasingly easy to get angry and prove one’s right only by raising one’s voice louder.
So a 7-year-old received an important lesson, but adults also remembered what it really means to be a parent. How the story ended remains a private matter between the two families, but certainly the flash of the kind father was a light of hope and good education, not only civic. Which is good for everyone.

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